AL.com Opinion

About the writerJD Crowe is the statewide cartoonist for the Alabama Media Group. His work is published in the newspaper on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and online all the time at Al.com. He can be reached at jdcrowe@al.com.

Keep your dirty, filibustering paws off the spay/neuter clinic protection bill. I'm looking at you, Sen. Paul Bussman. The GOP state senator from Cullman is in cahoots with a few "hard-core" money-grubbing veterinarians who oppose non-profit spay/neuter clinics and are looking to block the protection bill from coming to a vote in the Senate.

The nonprofit clinics provide spay/neuter services to animals and pets that would otherwise never see a veterinarian. As Joey Kennedy says, this clinic protection bill, HB141, should be a "no-brainer" and would likely pass. "For Bussman's team to win, it has to play dirty."